Sentence examples for become holding from inspiring English sources

Prisons have become holding pens for society's most vulnerable members.

Therefore the best case scenario in this strategy seems to be that these companies find enough financial success that they just transition out of the content game and become holding companies for other types of consumer-facing brands the way Naspers has.

In September 2006, the band rented practice space and began writing material for what would become Holding a Wolf by the Ears.

Cubicles along the side lines become holding cells for characters seen in various states of anxiety or time-killing — one perusing a copy of Playboy, another twiddling a Rubik's Cube.

He also worries that the measure could make it easier for dropout recovery charters to become "holding bins" for traditional school districts to dump their problem students.

Jumped into insurance; rose to chairman of Insurance Company of the West; renamed Westcorp, became holding company for Western Financial Bank and WFS Financial, one of nation’s largest auto finance companies.

Target price of 1400p reiterated, but buy becomes hold.

After a while, 'Hold the door' became 'Hold the doorHold the doorHoldoorHodoor.

Bonnie also began to turn more eastward at that point before it became held up by a blocking mid-latitude ridge of high pressure, which stalled the motion.

My verb for Love has become "hold" over the last few years, because I have experienced a growing awareness that this is exactly what Love IS and DOES.

Today S&Ls play a very small role in the larger economy, the largest commercial and investment banks have become bank holding companies, and competition has become global.